Professional development

Each year Bouverie offers a range of workshops at our centre in Brunswick which are designed to help professionals from a range of different settings extend their knowledge and skills. Review our professional development calendar.

All Bouverie-based professional development workshops can be delivered in Community.

The Indigenous team's iconic short courses include:

First steps in family work: Building confidence to work with families and significant others (5 days)

Note: We are not able to offer cultural awareness training. If you are interested in this type of training, we recommend you contact your local Aboriginal RTO.

No Bullshit Therapy, Wurundjeri Country, Brunswick

Hear from participants who attended the Healing Aboriginal Families workshop:

This is the most informative and interesting training I've attended in 26 years!

Child Protection worker

I've always wondered what reconciliation in action felt like. Now I know!

Aboriginal Family worker

News

Indigenous students proud to wear their Aboriginal colours at graduation ceremony

La Trobe University, UniNews - NEWS April 22, 2013.
The March 2013 graduation ceremony witnessed an unusual event - a group of Indigenous graduates collected their Postgraduate Certificates in Family Therapy and were dressed not only in the ceremonial gown, but

Bouverie respects NAIDOC Week

La Trobe University, UniNews - NEWS July 9, 2012.
The Bouverie Centre last week hosted a calendar of events to celebrate NAIDOC week, including a talk by centre staff Robyne Latham and Jana Kelly about the history and significance of NAIDOC

The Bouverie Centre acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which our organisational building stands - the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future. We also extend that respect to all Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples.